Mind Control in Canada - radio series - pt 4
Interrogation lasted until 12.25am when all except the subject ____ left
the Operations Room. Tape recording was cut off at this time. As a
result of this interview _____ stated that subject's mental and physical
condition was good and noted that the pulse (Ross: which is actually the
blood pressure) at 12.25am was 120/80 (Ross: so these guys are not total
wizards). The doctor also commented he had noticed an increased amount
of talk after a drink of whiskey and although there was some nervousness
present, it was not excessive. _____ stated he had given subject two
grams of anibarbitol to the subject to assist him to sleep and it was
later confirmed the subject had taken this prior to going to sleep.
(Ross: a half a paragraph is whited out.) Because of the successful
penetration and because of the extremely high quality of information
which the subject was obtaining, the case is regarded as most sensitive
and important by the participating Division. Since the subject's
information had be en checked and cross-checked many times by the
Operating Division's Case Officers, and the Division was of the uniform
opinion that the subject was fully legitimate and fully cooperating with
our efforts; they however desired Artichoke to give added assurance to
the subject's story and to help them determine absolute suitability for
further use of the subject in his work. For the record, it should be
noted that no polygraph techniques had been applied in this case, since
a physical examination by _____ apparently a cleared physician had
indicated too much nervousness for successful polygraph testing.
Following established patterns using medical cover as explained above,
the ____ began a physical and psychological examination at 10am on the
morning of Friday 21 January. This examination continued until lpm when
an hour was taken for lunch. At 2pm _____ again continued the general
examination of the subject with _____ being used, as before lunch, as
interpreter. This exam ination lasted unti l 3pm when the ____
concluded the first medical session and a portable polygraph was taken
in by ____ for the purpose of polygraph testing. (Ross: there's a bunch
of blanked out stuff.) On Saturday 22 January 1955 subject had
breakfast with ____. At 9.35am ____ arrived at the Safe House and at
9.45am ____ arrived. At 10.35am the subject again, with ____ acting as
interpreter, was examined briefly by Dr. ______. At l0.50am _____ left
the operations area and began polygraph testing. This examination
lasted until 12.37pm when it was concluded. (Ross: then it goes on ...
I'll skip a little bit.) Subject was taken into the Special Operations
Room with only the ____ present and at 2.36pm the first intravenous
infusion began. Slow injections were continued until 2.46pm when the
____ signalled that the subject was fully affected by the chemicals and
at this time special recording and transmitting equipment was brought
into the Operations Room. Also at this time ____ left the room and ____
entered. From this point until approximately 4.15pm when the
interrogations ended, Artichoke techniques were applied. These
techniques, which followed a previously agreed-upon plan, were in three
stages: (Ross: this is now deliberate implantation of false memories.)
A. A fantasy which ______. Results during this phase were good and
subject had no control. Time approximately 15-20 minutes. B. A fantasy
in which _____. Results were again very good. Time approximately 40-45
minutes. C. Following development of the fantasies as noted above, the
subject was more or less directly interrogated by _____, and ____
introduced as _____. Results only fair, although subject had little
control. Time approximately 15 minutes. Immediately following the
conclusion of the Artichoke treatments, a general conference was held
with all hands present. It was agreed at this time that further
Artichoke treatments were unnecessary, that results were as conclusive
.. that in view of the subject's importance, additional work with
chemicals or with the H technique might possibly antagonize the subject,
hence would be unwarranted and unwise. Following the conclusion of the
general discussion all technical apparatus was removed from the
premises, and all participating personnel with the exception of _____
left the area after the ____ had checked the subject. On Sunday 23
January between approximately twelve noon and l.30pm, the _____ returned
to the Safe House and again re-examined the physical and mental
condition of the subject. At this time the subject reported he had
slept fairly well but he had a persistent headache. The _____ pointed
out that the headache was a natural consequenc e of the "examination"
and it would gradu ally disappear. In addition the ____ wrote a
prescription which was to be picked up in another name for future use by
the subject as a general sedative. At l.50pm approximately _____ left
the Safe House and the subject was turned over for handling to Case
Officers of his participating Division. CONCLUSIONS: In the opinion of
the Artichoke Team the operation was profitable and successful. In this
case the subject was aware that he had been given certain types of
solutions but as to what he had been given or amounts given, he had no
knowledge. Checks were made by ___ and later ____ and apparently
indicated that the subject, although not having specific amnesia for the
Artichoke treatment, nevertheless was completely confused and his memory
was vague and faulty. This vagueness and failure of memory was
intensified by the _____ explanation that the subject had been dreaming
an opinion which it appeared the subject shared in part." Ross: So
that's obviously operational use of sophisticated mind control amnesia
inducing and false memory implanting techniques in the USA in the 1950's
by the CIA. It's part of a broad program of mind control research,
experimentation and operational use which included the creation of
Manchurian Candidates. So this is why I say that I conclude that it's
an established fact that the CIA and the military have been creating
Manchurian Candidates for operational use since World War II at least
into the 1950's, and that it's not plausible denial in my mind to claim
that it all stopped in 1973. How did this whole network get constructed,
and how does it work and how is it supported? We are going to take
several steps beyond Oliver Stone in terms of level of conspiracy
theory, but that's not the point of the talk. The conspiracy theory is
interesting to get into, but what I actually believe is that there isn't
a conspiracy. I think that the Intelligence Community itself is a
polyfragmented entity with Dissociative Identity Disorder, and that
there is no single Executive Host Function. There is no little where
everybody has it all planned out and under control. That it works sort
of as Neural Network with no Executive Host Function, and that these Old
Boys talk to these Old Boys who know this, who don't know this, know
that, it's this kind of Network Model and that's what you see on the
slide. And all these slides are going to look like this. I am going to
walk you now through all these interconnections in this Network as I
said all of which are docume nted, and tell you about some of the
history, and talk about some of the ethical problems that arise. As a
matter of general background now, this slide is called "Funding Fronts
for CIA Mind Control Research". MKULTRA, you have already seen, was
from 1953 to 1963. The major funding fronts for MKULTRA were the Human
Ecology Foundation that Carl Rogers was on the Board of; the Josiah
Macey Jr. Foundation, and the Geshickter Fund. Charles Geshickter was
one of the MKULTRA contractors himself. So what happened was the CIA
would have its budget who would pop money over to the Human Ecology
Foundation ... HEF would put out a call for grants and people would then
submit applications. So it looks like a normal funding foundation, and
some people were unwitting and just thought they were applying for a
grant, and other people knew perfectly well there was a front, the
technical terms for these kinds of funds was a "Cutout". HEF, Josiah
Macey Jr. and Geshickter were CIA cutouts. This Geshickter Fund was
interesting. One of the MKULTRA projects that they funded was the
construction of the Gorman Annex at the George Washington University
Hospital in Washington, D.C. You have to remember that the military and
the CIA are federal bureaucracies. You anticipate the behaviour of
federal bureaucracies in general when you are looking into their history
and operations. So what they did was through MKULTRA they funded to
Geshickter who then funded out to the contractor money to build the
Gorman Annex as an addition to the hospital. Since this was money
coming from a private foundation, it generated matching funds from
another sector of the federal government. So the CIA got to double its
budget by sucking its money out of unwitting civilian areas of the
federal purse. What was the Gorman Annex for? It was for mind control
experimentation on terminal cancer patients. Three career officers, CIA
biochemists, were employed at the G orman Annex under full cover. This
is not completely above board and ethical behaviour. So Carl Rogers who
is on the board of the Human Ecology Foundation is himself an MKULTRA
contractor and his specific projects have got this MKULTRA grant
application ... I've got him on the Board of the HEF, I've got the
description of his project that was funded through MKULTRA, and I've got
the publication flowing from the project that exactly matches the grant
application, and in the published paper, he acknowledges funding from
the Human Ecology Foundation. So it's a completely documented closed
loop.
Josiah Macey Jr. Foundation. Who was on the Board? An interesting fellow
named Daniel X. Friedman. Daniel X. Friedman was the Editor of the
Archives of the Journal of Psychiatry from 1970 until his death in 1993.
The Archives of the Journal of Psychiatry is the most referenced
psychiatric journal in the world, by far. In other words, if you do
citation index searches of references of published psychiatry papers,
that is it's an indexing of all the published papers in all the
psychiatry journals in the world (the number of references to articles
published in the Journal of Psychiatry is 7x the number of the next
psychiatry journal in the world. So this "the" number one great big
place to publish. It is very biomedical reductionist and it's virtually
impossible to get a dissociative paper published in there. So these
people, like Daniel Friedman, who are in network, are incredibly
influential, powerful, controlling people in terms of the history of
psychiatry, what gets funded, what gets r eviewed, what gets published,
who gets appointments, etc etc etc. It's all part of a very powerful
tight structured network. MKULTRA connects itself up to Allen Dulles
which connects us back to Human Ecology over to Harold Wolff and back to
Allen Dulles. How does that work? Allen Dulles was the Director of the
CIA from 1953 to 1961. He has the longest-running tenure as
DCIA-Director of Central Intelligency Agency. In World War II he was
employed by the OSS - Offices of Strategic Services - which is the
pre-cursor of the CIA which was run by a guy called Wild Bill Donovan.
He was stationed in Switzerland and was heavily involved in, obviously
since the enemy was the Germans and the allies were the Russians, in the
War he was supposed to be working with the Russians against the Germans
which he did. However, when you read the history of the OSS in World
War II, in the last years of the War, the Cold War was already being
deliberately planned out and set up by the Intelligence Agencies, and it
was already apparent to the Intelligence Agencies that things were going
to flip - that Germany would become the Allies an d Russia would become
the enemy. There was an awful lot of jockeying about whether the
Germans were going to surrender in North Italy before the Russians got
to Yugoslavia - so there were now negotiations with the Germans -
because if they agreed to surrender early - before the Russians got
there - then there would be such-and-such a payoff which would secure
the area for the Allies so they wouldn't be taken over by the Russians.
There was all this jockeying going on, all this intrigue, communications
between the OSS and some of Hitler's generals. The arch-enemy spymaster,
who Allen Dulles was fighting against was Reinhard Gehlen who was head
of German Intelligence in the Eastern Front, which means Russia. At the
end of World War II, Allen Dulles recruited Reinhard Gehlen to become
the Head of that Division of the CIA's operations against Russia. This
is a totally established fact. Harold Wolff who was the Head of the
Human Ecology Foundation, was a neurologist at Cornell. When Allen
Dulles' son received a head wound in the Korean War, he was brought back
to the USA and treated by Harold Wolff. You start to get a feel for why
I call this an Old Boys' Network. Let's come down here to MKULTRA-we're
over at hallucinogens. A lot of MKULTRA subprojects had to with funding
LSD and other hallucinogens. A person who did a lot of hallucinogen
research and published a lot of hallucinogen research was Daniel
Friedman. Hallucinogen research also connects us down to Loretta Bender.
Loretta Bender is the much-revered author of "The Bender Gestalt". Now
look at these three names: Loretta Bender, Paul Hawk and Ewen Cameron.
You will see that each of these names (they are all supposed to connect
to the American Journal of Psychiatry obituaries). Ewen Cameron, Paul
Hawk and Loretta had their obituaries in the American Journal of
Psychiatry. So these are revered people, who are being honoured
posthumously by the flagship Journal of the American Psychiatric
Association. It's actually Stella Chess who writes the obituary for
Loretta Bender, very glowing, what a wonderful contributor to child
psychiatry, what a pioneer ... well, sh e forgot to mention in the
obituar y - in a publication that I have in my Loretta Bender file that
I got from a medical school library - Loretta Bender describes giving
150 mcg per day to children ages 7-11 years for days, weeks, months and
in some cases, even years in a row. This would not get through an Ethics
Committee. This is discussed at a CIA sponsored symposium on LSD. Paul
Hawk, anybody ever hear of a disorder called Borderline Personality
Disorder? Hawk and Pollett(sp) in 1949 Psychiatric Quarterly, Pseudo
Neurotic Forms of Schizophrenia - these people are on the borderline
between neurosis and schizophrenia - we call it pseudoneurotic
schizophrenia because they are on the borderline. It's one of the
reasons why the word "borderline" caught on.